Yahoo recently announced their “to infinity and beyond” unlimited email storage, and from that has come several things to think about. First, can any service truly offer “unlimited” storage to everybody? There has to be some cut off point, doesn’t there? Secondly, how much is too much? Do users really need that much storage?
Even extreme power email users probably don’t need that much storage. Especially when most people
There are all kinds of alternatives popping up for managing RSS feeds in an effecient, and easy-to-use way. One that you probably haven’t tried is called Anothr and it will send feed updates directly to your Google Talk or Skype instant messenger.
I was actually surprised at how easy the service was to use, and actually kind of fun. For Google Talk, all I had to do was add anothr@gmail.com to my list of friends
Google must not have been sitting too comfortably after Yahoo! announced their unlimited storage plans last week because they are apparently doing the same thing. Well, not quite the same because according to BBspot Google said that their storage will be “infinity plus one.” They then went on to say:
Once your Yahoo e-mail box is full, you'll be able to transfer it to Gmail
Last Friday, people started to notice that Google replaced the satellite imagery of New Orleans with those taken before hurricane Katrina had devastated the city. Both blogs and news sites alike were claiming that Google was trying to rewrite the history of what happened in New Orleans. Here is what Google’s response was:
Several months later, in September 2006, the storm imagery was replaced with pre-Katrina aerial
We already know about the RIAA’s list of shame for top piracy schools, but it looks like the MPAA is following right along with their own list, naming the top 25 schools where students are violating copyright laws. The RIAA is trying to earn quick money by telling the students they can pay $3,000 to settle, but whether or not the MPAA follows along and goes after the
Office 2008 for Macs is now in the private testing phase, and unfortunately it is still not known whether or not Microsoft will offer a public beta in the future. The plan as it stands, is that the Mac version will be released in the 2nd half of 2007 which would make it the newest addition since 2004.
Several big changes from the previous version: First, it will be a universal binary. This means that it
Microsoft will be releasing a critical security update tomorrow (via Windows Update) to patch what is being referred to as the “Windows animated cursor” vulnerability. It almost sounds hard to believe that an exploit can occur from something as simple as a mouse cursor, but as CNet points out it is definitely possible:
There's a new Microsoft Windows vulnerability caused by an unspecified error in the way Windows 2000,